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michael van
02-17-06, 03:05 PM
Ok went and bought a new C/D player for my truck and it plays mp3 what can you tell me about that.
I guess you download off the net onto a disk thats all I know.Special disk? how many songs can you get on one disk?
I want to try it and get me some old Jethro Tull songs and some other good rock of the 60s and 70s.
Darn I sure miss my reel to reel:)
I guess you download off the net onto a disk thats all I know.Special disk? how many songs can you get on one disk?
I want to try it and get me some old Jethro Tull songs and some other good rock of the 60s and 70s.
Darn I sure miss my reel to reel:)
classicsat
02-17-06, 08:19 PM
MP3 is an audio compression format, that makes files ~1/10th the size of the raw audio on a CD, which obviously means about 10 CDs can be put on an MP3 CD.
Generally, you cannot get MP3s legally from the net, at least of popular and older artists (it is usually newer independant artists that have MP3s to download.
The way you get MP3s is you encode your own media, including CDs made from content purchased from legal online vendors (they sell incompatible DRM protected tracks which will play on their players, or you burn to CD to encode into MP3).
Generally, you cannot get MP3s legally from the net, at least of popular and older artists (it is usually newer independant artists that have MP3s to download.
The way you get MP3s is you encode your own media, including CDs made from content purchased from legal online vendors (they sell incompatible DRM protected tracks which will play on their players, or you burn to CD to encode into MP3).
BobF
02-17-06, 11:43 PM
Man, didn't you hate changing the reels while driving? :D
Seriously, though, a commercial CD has aboout 30 minuts of music. If you made a CD with all mp3 format, it would hold 10-13 hours of music. Yes, all the albums all your favorite bands ever made and all on one CD.
What you'd need is: a turntable hooked up to your computer, a CD burner, and software to convert the tracks to mp3 format.
Seriously, though, a commercial CD has aboout 30 minuts of music. If you made a CD with all mp3 format, it would hold 10-13 hours of music. Yes, all the albums all your favorite bands ever made and all on one CD.
What you'd need is: a turntable hooked up to your computer, a CD burner, and software to convert the tracks to mp3 format.
michael van
02-19-06, 03:09 AM
Put the Beatles in and it worked in the player so now I have hours and hours of beatles:) .
Now I have to figure out how to make my own of other bands I like:wall: .
Heck I guess my post got lost that I wrote before this one about my brother that lives in Holland giving me a CD a few years ago of all the Beatles albums but at that time he said it would only play on my computer.
Now I have to figure out how to make my own of other bands I like:wall: .
Heck I guess my post got lost that I wrote before this one about my brother that lives in Holland giving me a CD a few years ago of all the Beatles albums but at that time he said it would only play on my computer.
classicsat
02-22-06, 07:25 AM
For your existing CDs, you need a CD ripping/MP3 management tools.
iTunes for apple can do this (you have to tell it to rip your CDs to MP3, it defaults to AAC), Musicmatch might, and Windows Media Player can as well (it defaults to WMA I think). You then master the MP3s to a data CD.
Also, to add, you can dowload podcasts and burn them to CD to listen on your commute.
iTunes for apple can do this (you have to tell it to rip your CDs to MP3, it defaults to AAC), Musicmatch might, and Windows Media Player can as well (it defaults to WMA I think). You then master the MP3s to a data CD.
Also, to add, you can dowload podcasts and burn them to CD to listen on your commute.